Ms. Rice’s positive and negative populism

More milestones in Orwellian bafflegab.

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised before the US Congress to resist what she described as growing “undemocratic populism” in Latinamerica.

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Apparently the exchange over the extent of populism erupted when Ms Rice argued that Congress must approve Cafta to help combat the “forces of populism”. “I’ve never heard populism described in such negative and pejorative manner”, stressed Senator Dick Durbin. Ms. Rice admitted that populism as such has a long and proud tradition in many parts of the world mentioning leaders such as Andrew Jackson and Nelson Mandela, but added that Latinamerican populism is not necessarily so “respectable”.

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Rather “it appeals to poor and needy people in a clearly undemocratic way and this can be clearly appreciated in certain parts of Latinamerica. This we must resist”.

However Ms. Rice emphasized that United States can work with centre-left countries of the region such as Brazil and Chile and specifically mentioned Brazil and Chile, countries with governments that follow responsible, sustainable policies.

Note she sticks with the rhetoric intended to isolate Chavez
from the S. Cone states. A losing horse, but what else do they
have?

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is the same as capitalism. Every time one of these asses uses the word, I can't help but substitute "unfettered capitalism".

Democracy = plutocracy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that identification (very incorrect IMO) have it's roots in the US constitution?

"responsible, sustainable policies" - hmmmm.....

These sound like code words to me for 'allowing the world bank and imf to take over all of their natural resources and pay the united states for the priviledge of doing so, while seriously harming the countries own economies through the high interest rates they have to pay."

how can appealing to them be undemocratic?

"A back-hand, not a handout"

coming in and out of her ears ...and not to mention her lying lips.

interests, or wisdom of the common people."

Of course Condoevil hates populists and populism.

If Jefferson, Madison, Fredrick Douglas, and Martin Luther King were alive today, Rice and the rest of the neocons would burn them at the stake, and dance around the fire to their agonized screams.